Chapter 238 Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes

Chapter 238 Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes

Chapter 238 Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes
The concept of tracks was first proposed by the Englishman Richard Edgford in 1770.

In 1837, the Russians Chagaryansky and Blinnov respectively applied for patents for "infinite track" trailers, and the tracks had already been manufactured.

However, in the past, there was no steam tractor or other powerful transport equipment, so crawler tracks had a very limited application and were not practical. The crawler trailer designed by Brinnov was not officially tested until 1880.

The development of new technologies always comes at a slow pace.

The patent is valid for twenty years, and the Russian patent has expired. In fact, if Hailing Arsenal wants to install tracks on a tractor, it can directly copy the technology without spending any money.

The Huai Army's steam tractor was copied from a design made by the British during the Crimean War.

Redesigning the tracks for the tractor is a huge task and it cannot be done in the short term, at least one or two years.

It is estimated that it will not be used in the Western Expedition. Shao Quanzhong thought of it and let the rear end start working on it. The technical personnel cannot be left idle, as they will always be used in the future.

Will there be no more wars after the Western Expedition? The imperial court thought so and was unwilling to make trouble, but Shao Quanzhong did not think so.

Are warlords still warlords if they don't fight? Shao Quanzhong will definitely make bigger troubles.

While Shao Quanzhong was instructing the long-term plan for developing crawler tractors, Grant and Emery were already looking at the new weapons one by one.

"New hand grenades, mines, new explosive packs, blasting tubes, new shrapnel bombs of various specifications, um, there are no six-pound ones yet. This type of grenade is too big, oh, it is used with a grenade thrower... Huh? What are these barbed wires for? Well, there are instructions here-"

Shao Quanzhong was shocked when he heard this. What? Barbed wire and grenade launchers are out? Barbed wire is not a big deal, but grenade launchers are a bit advanced, right? How did they get this?

When I looked over, I realized that this grenade launcher was not the grenade launcher, nor was it the ultra-light mortar that Shao Quanzhong had in mind. It was a large slingshot.

With rubber, this thing came into being, which is much faster than making a bow by hand which takes several months to a year or two.

Regardless of whether this thing looks backward or not, just ask yourself whether it can throw large grenades. It is quite consistent with Shao Quanzhong's pragmatic view that it is fine as long as it can be used.

Ding Gongchen has returned to Hailing to take charge of work and retire. The grenade launcher and barbed wire were designed by Ding Shoucun after he took charge of the Lanzhou Arsenal.

When Ding Shoucun took office, Xiao Guicao followed him and worked proactively, without waiting or relying on others, and developed new equipment on his own.

Ding Shoucun was a Jinshi and had a top-notch brain, but he had never seen American machine tools.

After becoming initially familiar with the various advanced machine tools in the arsenal, they immediately developed a machine-made grenade thrower and an upgraded version of the barbed wire made of deer antlers.

This first batch of barbed wire was hand-woven after the wire was produced by machine, which is more labor-intensive and time-consuming.

Mr. Ding has quickly designed a barbed wire weaving machine, and is currently manufacturing the new machine himself using American machine tools as the mother machine - barbed wire is an invention of its own, and there is no corresponding machine in the West.

The machine for producing barbed wire is much simpler than a crawler tractor. However, this is the first batch of modern machinery and equipment designed by the Chinese themselves - Mr. Ding is not just a figurehead.

Grant was very sensitive to armaments and immediately envisioned the use scenarios of these new equipment.

"This will greatly enhance the infantry's trench warfare capabilities, and provide a new means of attacking the enemy's temporary fortresses in local battlefields that the artillery cannot reach. We need to build more barbed wire. On plains without terrain advantages, it can also restrict the enemy's combat movement routes..."

Grant was only thinking about how to use it. Emery slapped his forehead and said, "The infantry's combat mode needs to be changed. I have to compile new combat regulations and training regulations. My "Infantry Tactics" also needs to be revised..."

Korla began large-scale military training.

The Mongolian cavalry had to undergo a lot of modern training, and the Huai Army veterans also had to train in new combat items. Throwing bombs, laying barbed wire, using grenade throwers and blasting tubes, that is, the original explosive packs, with detonators and fuses, no longer needing to light the fuse, but they also had to be familiar with it again, right?

Soldiers also need to be familiar with the power of TNT and black powder. If they need to blow up a city or a fortress, they don't need to prepare so many explosive packs or dig such a large pit, which will greatly speed up the process and reduce casualties.

It turns out that the "Soldier Training Song" taught by Shao Quanzhong is no longer sufficient, and the veterans must memorize new combat regulations...

Wu Ziyi and Emery presided over the training of veterans, and Grant took the Gansu cavalry veterans to start training Mongolian cavalry.

The Korla military camp was busy as hell, and Shao Quanzhong no longer had to do this, so he took the guard platoon to patrol around.

"Fellow countryman, have you seen Ma Zhan'ao leading the refugees passing by here?"

"Sir, don't mention that plague god. He is a piece of shit."

"Hmm? Did Ma Zhan'ao do something here that would anger the heavens and the people?"

"He didn't bully us, but he brought 600,000 refugees, including an army of 100,000, through here to ask Yakub Beg for food. Yakub Beg didn't want to lose troops to fight with these desperate refugees, so he could only exploit us and send these blind vagrants away. As a result, we were required to collect a lot more food, and we couldn't even have enough to eat..."

Well, Ma Zhan’ao, who was barefoot, was not afraid of those who wore shoes. He walked all the way and asked the local rulers for food. If they didn’t give us food, he would “take it himself”.

The rulers along the way were strong and weak, and if there was a real war, none of them would be afraid of Ma Zhan'ao's troops. But they were clearly passing through, just to get some food, and if they didn't give us, they would fight to the death.

The rulers weighed the pros and cons. No one wanted to lose tens of thousands of troops to do good deeds and eliminate these refugees. So they pinched their noses and sent them away with food, leaving them to harm their next neighbor...

Ma Zhan'ao led the refugees and extorted money along the way, and now no one knows where he is.

Time flies, and two months have passed in the blink of an eye.

"Sir, the Mongols are natural born warriors. They are so easy to train. It's only been two months. When I was training the cavalry brigade, your fellow Jiangyan people hadn't even mastered riding horses yet. These 10,000 Mongolian soldiers are now first-class modern cavalry."

That was because Grant prided himself on his excellent riding skills, and his confidence suffered a great blow when he faced the Mongolian soldiers.

The Mongolian soldiers did not need any training in riding skills, and almost all of them were better than their instructor Grant.

Grant thought he was good at making his warhorse lie down - he had already learned how to do it.

The use of a breech-loading carbine - people used to know how to use a matchlock. A breech-loading carbine is much easier to use than a matchlock, right?
There was no need to be taught how to use the saber, the half-arc rotation tactics, or the wall charge. Even how to lure the enemy, provide fire support, and tie down troops to cooperate with the main combat forces was something they learned without any instruction.

All you need to do is learn some cavalry regulations and summarize the tactics you already know into rules.

"Report!"

The person who came to report this time was Tong Haichuan, the captain of the Detective Department's Detective Team 1, who had never had a chance to perform.

"Sir, I led a detective team through the dense forests of Tiemenguan Gorge and over the mountains to conduct reconnaissance. We found that the number of Kokand soldiers west of the valley entrance has greatly decreased. There are only two companies left, and their morale is still unstable."

"what happened?"

"The suspects we captured confessed that the Kokand people had an internal conflict and are now fighting among themselves."

Hmm? A new combat opportunity has come?
(End of this chapter)